1. MMIT, Pune || Engineering Physics
Prerequisites for Engineering
Physics
2. MMIT, Pune || Engineering Physics
Prerequisites - Unit 1 - Optics
● Characteristics of wave – frequency, wavelength , amplitude and intensity,
speed of light
● Refractive index of light
● Phase of waves
● Path difference and phase difference
● Interference – Constructive and destructive
● Conditions for constructive and destructive interference
● Change of phase after reflection - Stoke's theorem
● Reflection from the boundary of dense and rare medium
● Electromagnetic waves and electromagnetic spectrum
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Prerequisites - Unit 2 - Laser & Optical Fibers
● Structure of atoms
● Bohr atomic structure
● Energy levels transition - emission and absorption of photons
● Coherence of light waves
● Amplitude, Phase, Phase difference
● Brightness, intensity, Photons
● Reflection & refraction - Snell’s law
● Critical angle
● Total internal reflection
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4. MMIT, Pune || Engineering Physics
Prerequisites - Unit 3 - Quantum Mechanics
● Wave Particle duality
● De Broglie hypothesis
● Equation for de Broglie wavelengths
● Numericals on de Broglie hypothesis
● Partial derivatives - one dimensional, three dimensional
● Boundary conditions
● Differential equations
● Partial differential equations
● Solution to partial differential equations
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5. MMIT, Pune || Engineering Physics
Prerequisites - Unit 4 - Semiconductor Physics
● Basic difference between metal, insulator & semiconductors
● Conduction band, valence band, band gap energy
● Resistance, resistivity, conductivity
● Semiconductors - intrinsic and extrinsic
● Doping in semiconductors
● PN junction diodes
○ Formation of PN junction
○ Depletion region
○ Forward, reverse bias characteristics
● Effect of magnetic field on current (flow of electrons)
● Force on electron due to magnetic field (Lawrenz force)
● Solar cell
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6. MMIT, Pune || Engineering Physics
Prerequisites - Unit 5 - Magnetism & Superconductivity
● Structure of atoms
● Origin of magnetism due to moving charges, Equivalence between magnetic
dipole and circular coil carrying current, Definition of magnetic dipole
moment and it's unit
● Types of magnetism
○ Diamagnetism, Paramagnetism and Ferromagnetism
● Basic definitions of magnetism
● Resistance, resistivity, conductivity
● Faraday’s law, Lenz law
● Ma
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Prerequisites - Unit 6 - NDT & Nanotechnology
● Reflection of sound waves
● Echo of sound
● Surface area
● Volume
● Surface area to volume ratio
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